The Transmission of Telegrams: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Sixty-second Congress, Second Session. H.R. 3010, May 24, 1912. [Including a Reprint of Frank Parsons' Monograph "The Telegraph Monopoly"].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 162 страница |
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